Activities at the April 25 and 11 Stanton foreign
and defense policy meetings chaired by Laszlo Pasztor of Coalitions
for America and Amy Moritz of The National Center for Public Policy
Research.

PRC's Treaty Violations Require U.S. to Cancel $11
Billion in Loans

Will President Clinton Do It?

Dr. Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education
Center and a former aide to a U.S. Ambassador to the People's
Republic of China distributed remarks he made to the Senate Armed
Services Committee on March 27 on nuclear proliferation, and discussed
the PRC's violation of arms control treaties, including the fact
that this violation, under U.S. law, requires the U.S. to cancel
approximately $11 billion in Export-Import Bank loans. President
Clinton's advisors are urging him to seek a waiver of this law,
Sokolski said. Sokolski also discussed PRC assistance to Iran
in the chemical rocket area, and made specific recommendations
for U.S. policy. Contact the Nonproliferation Policy Education
Center at 202/466-4406.

Americans Make Themselves Vulnerable to Terrorists
in Many Ways, Says Expert

Terrorism expert Dr. Neil Livingston talked about:

The current world-wide terrorism alert and recent threats
made against the U.S.

The alleged Unabomber's ties to the radical environmentalist
movement. Livingston said the Unabomber should be called the
"Ecobomber," saying that the U.S. "may have instead
of [a threat from] right-wing militias that have dominated public
discourse, a left-wing threat... No one wants to talk about it
because of Vice President Al Gore's interest in the environment."
Livingston also reported that the environmentalist group Earth
First! "talks on the Internet about what they want to do
to businesses they don't like."

A civil case he is involved in presently to get publishers
of books that teach people how to murder liable for civil damages
-- and effort he is involved in to discourage people from publishing
such books. Livingston brought along examples, including the
books Poor Man's Nuclear Bomb, which teaches people how to make
nuclear bombs, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors,
Assorted Nasties, and How to Kill. "If you don't know how
to rape a woman, you can get a book on it today. If you don't
know how to bomb the Pentagon, you can buy a book," said
Livingston, who described buying a book containing bomb-making
instructions at National Airport, saying "Only in America
can you buy a book on bombing to read on a plane." Livingston
said that portions of the books he's referring to, translated
into Arabic, have been found among terrorists.

Contact Dr. Livingston at 202/342-0309.

President Clinton and "Honest Boris" to
Rewrite
Treaty Without Senate Approval: Does the Senate Care?

General Milnor Roberts (USAR-Ret.) of High Frontier discussed
the Clinton Administration's desire to re-write the 1972 Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty to include mobile missile launchers without seeking
Senate ratification of these treaty changes as required by the
U.S. Constitution. Roberts urged the Senate to "show some
backbone." Roberts also reviewed the transcript of the press
conference held by Clinton and Yeltsin, noting several items of
interest, including the fact that Clinton compared Yeltsin to
Abraham Lincoln. Contact High Frontier at 703/671-4111.

Will the Russian Presidential Election Be the
Last Free Election in Russia?

Dr. Ariel Cohen of The Heritage Foundation reviewed the Clinton-Yeltsin
summit, saying that the U.S. "has very little to show for
two days of summit meetings," and noting that the U.S. has
now spent $14 billion to support Boris Yeltsin in the last four
months. Cohen reviewed unconfirmed reports that Strobe Talbot
has been telling Russian officials that the U.S. Republican Party
is supporting Clinton's communist opponent in the upcoming Russian
presidential election, noted that Yeltsin is claiming that Clinton
has promised Yeltsin that he will not expand NATO (the White House
says our NATO expansion policy has not changed), and predicted
that Yeltsin will lose the presidential election (the first round
of which is June 16). Cohen bases his prediction on the fact that
Russians are dissatisfied with the present system while polls
show little fear of communism among Russians. Cohen said he fears
that this election may be the last free election in Russia. Contact
The Heritage Foundation at 202/546-4400.

Clinton Administration Seeks to Make World Population
Control Key Tenet of U.S. Foreign Policy

Jim Sheehan of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) described
the formation of the President's Council on Sustainable Development,
which is co-chaired by Dow Chemical and the World Resources Institute.
The Clinton Administration has decided, Sheehan said, to make
global sustainable development a paramount foreign policy goal
of the United States. Sheehan discussed the contents of "Sustainable
Development: A New America," a federal government report
explaining that this means, among other things, massive U.S. support
for population control programs, including abortion. Sheehan also
discussed a forum CEI is sponsoring to examine the question: has
NAFTA helped promote freedom in Mexico? Contact Competitive Enterprise
Institute at 202/331-1010.

Bob Goldsborough of Americans for Immigration Control reviewed
the status of immigration reform and harshly criticized companies
like Tyson Chicken and Microsoft, as well as some conservatives,
for their opposition to aspects of immigration reform. Goldsborough
reviewed the costs of services to immigrants to the U.S. treasury,
estimating them at over $100 billion annually, and discussed poll
data showing that Americans overwhelmingly want illegal immigration
stopped and legal immigration sharply reduced. He distributed
information, including a video "Immigration: Making America
Less Beautiful" by the American Immigration Control Foundation
(540-468-2022). Contact Americans for Immigration Control at 410/435-7086.

House Resolution to Seek Apology, Financial Restitution
from Japan for U.S. WWII Prisoners

Al Santoli of Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA)'s office announced that
next week Rep. Dornan will introduce a resolution seeking restitution
for people who were U.S. military and civilian prisoners of Japan
during World War II. Dornan's resolution calls for

an apology from Japan for mistreatment of prisoners,

$20,000 payments from Japan to each of the 33,587 miliary
and 13,996 civilian prisoners still living (equal to the amount
the U.S. gave Japanese-American detainees of the era),

the U.S. government to open to the public the records obtained
from Japan on the experiments Japan conducted on live prisoners.

Santoli also discussed issues relating to the PRC, including
Most Favored Nation status, saying MFN renewal would be "idiocy"
because China is using the financial benefits to buy weapons.
Contact Bob Dornan's office at 703/255-6437 or 202/225-2965.

Dissident Group Reviews Recent Events Vis-A-Vis the
PRC

Xing Zheng of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students
and Scholars reviewed issues relating to the People's Republic
of China:

Captain Tim Hunter of State Department Watch reported on an
April 9 speech by Secretary of State Warren Christopher that,
to Hunter, "looked like it was straight out of the Unabomber."
Hunter also discussed the U.S. government's attitude toward the
persecution of religious minorities in Saudi Arabia. Contact the
State Department Watch at 202/669-5558.

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